Prosodic weight : categories and continua

Prosodic weight : categories and continua / Kevin M. Ryan.

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, combining traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight with new developments in statistical prosodic phonology. It is based on a survey of weight systems in the world's languages, yielding a number of v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, Kevin M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in phonology and phonetics ; 3.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Phonetics & Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Weight scales for stress
  • Prosodic minimality in isolation and in context
  • quantitative meter
  • Prosodic end-weight and the stress-weight interface
  • Conclusion and further issues.

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